"The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has prepared model curricula intended to improve international journalism education. While the overall goal is worthy, serious obstacles exist to its implementation in the "developing countries and emerging democracies" if it is promoted as a tool to reshape the education of future professionals. This article discusses those political, economic, legal, and cultural obstacles and suggests that the focus of journalism education under such conditions be development of students' practical professional skills and an understanding of the widely accepted professional values of fairness, balance, accuracy, and ethics." (Abstract)